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淺談Lupa的藝術

文｜嚴仲唐

「藝術最重要的元素是對萬物的愛與坦誠的靈魂。」

——Lupa

在她的創作中可以看見宇宙，也看到內心的風景。究竟這宇宙藏於內心，還是只是閃爍銀河中一顆看不到的「心星」？出生於1989年的Lupa，著實有著神秘的老靈魂。她面對藝術的真誠之心賦予了她獨到的眼光。而這眼光看的不僅是現實，更是夢，以及夢醒時分的朦朧狀態（hypnagogic state），跨越時間與空間，打破邏輯常理。她時常覺得心中有許多的房間，這些畫面，或許是每個不同心房的景象，是現實也是夢。

對Lupa而言，「藝術就是原始的本能，也是慾望。」藝術創作猶如呼吸一般，時時刻刻構思，理性與想像之間的調和，有神話、有童話、有詩意、有美好也有恐懼。她的藝術似乎在平行的世界之間搭建出橋樑，使人們一睹顛覆所有既定規則的新領域。烾代表著真誠之心，藏於浩瀚無窮盡的房間之中，亦或許是心房。心房中的心是超越常理所能解釋的。每一間心房皆有一扇門，在握下門把的剎那間，生命的永恆與種種瞬間併發存入虛幻的腦海中，如帶刺的玫瑰，美好也暗藏危機。在無盡的房間中，唯有保存赤子之心，方能遨遊不致迷失。

在繽紛迷幻的色彩對比與主題之中，看出她對藝術的各種媒材掌握到位而不被侷限，因為這都是藝術表現的媒介，其中的精髓則是藝術家的創作精神與信息。而她的藝術背後具有豐富的元素與極為細膩複雜的網絡，交織著主意識的懷疑與潛意識的踏實，兩者融合為一，成為一種超級朦朧狀態（hyper-hypnagogic state）。

看似矛盾卻毫無違和感的平靜（equilibrium）加上永無止境的好奇感，是看見Lupa的藝術會產生的特殊感官與體會。每件作品都猶如她內心長不大的孩子，低聲耳語，永遠道不盡那無限的奧秘。對於自己的作品，她說道：「帶著美麗的嚮往與潛意識的恐懼。我的作品常不是單純的美，而是在美與醜、善與惡的矛盾中找出一個和諧。」這和諧在她藝術中的朦朧狀態之下淋漓盡致的展現出夢與現實的平衡，同時，不一語道破畫面中所埋藏的秘密。

「畢竟是非皆一夢，百年夢醒事如何。」

摘自宋末元初｜黃庚《偶成》

Infinite Chambers of Hidden Sincerity

On Lupa’s Art

By Jason Chung Tang Yen

“The most pivotal elements in art are the love for all lives and a candid soul.”

——Lupa

In her oeuvre, one can see the universe, the and landscape within minds. Does this universe exist within, or merely an invisible “star of the hearts” in the glittering milky way? Born in 1989, Lupa clearly possesses an old soul. Her candid heart towards art conveys a unique point of view and aesthetics. Her viewpoint is not just from reality but also dreams, and the hypnagogic state in between lucidity and the realm of fantasy beyond space and time and logic. She feels there are many chambers in one’s heart, the images we see from her works are perhaps from these various “heart chambers”, that are of both realities and dreams.

To Lupa, “art is desire and instinctively primitive.” Creating art is breathing to her, constantly pondering, balancing imagination and reason, there are mythologies, fairy tales, poetic resonance, beauty, and fear. Her art, as if building a bridge in between parallel worlds, gives people access to new territories that defy all existing rules. Sincerity hidden within endless rooms, or chambers within the heart, is the heart within heart chambers, this is beyond explanation by logic. Every heart chamber has a door, the split moment when one holds the doorknob, an eternity of life and everything within suddenly materialise in the illusory sea of the mind, like roses with thorns, beauty comes with hidden perils. Only with a sincere heart, one will not get lost in the endless rooms.

In the vibrant and dazzling colours of the subject and contrast, Lupa is not restrained by a single medium, as it is a channel of artistic expression, she is in control of various materials, the essence lies within the artist’s artistic spirit and messages. Beneath her art, there is a highly sophisticated and complex network of abundant motifs, interweaving the doubts of the main consciousness and the practicality of the subconsciousness, merging the two into a hyper-hypnagogic state.

Seemingly paradoxical but no sense of conflict, this equilibrium added upon the never ending curiosity, is an extraordinary after-effect on the senses of observing Lupa’s art. Every work is like her internal puer aeternus, whispering the immeasurable secrets that is boundless. On her own art, she said: “with the longing for beauty and the fear from the subconsciousness, my art is not about mere aesthetics, but finding harmony in beauty and ugliness, good and evil.” This harmony is thoroughly expressed in the hypnagogic state of her art, at the same time, revealing a part of the balance of dreams and realities while withholding parts of the hidden secrets.

“After all, all is but a dream, what is reality after waking up from a century of dreams.”

From the poem “Even” by Huang Geng, Late Song / Early Yuan Dynasty